Three Roads Back Quotes

“the material will be familiar to readers and scholars. But the documentary method is intended to facilitate a personal, even a sympathetic, connection—rather than a detached, critical, or judgmental connection—between the reader and the subject.”
― Robert D Richardson, Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives

“What all three of these writers and thinkers teach, through their lives as much as their writings, is resilience—that is, how to recover from losses, how to get back up after being knocked down, how to construct prosperity out of the wreckage of disaster.”
― Robert D Richardson, Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives

“read that summer as if searching for the right recipe—how to do it. In Bob’s book I found familiar prescriptions: travel, reading, nature, friendship, journal-keeping, letter-writing. Yet all of this was delivered with heightened impact through a method Bob calls “documentary biography,” in words and scenes lifted straight from the past, as if the book were a documentary film.”
― Robert D Richardson, Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives